girls:
21.3k births since 1989
#994 (83rd percentile)
boys:
17.2k births since 1880
#878 (81st percentile)
overall:
38.5k births since 1880
#1269 (84th percentile)
The name Finley is the #1,269 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,480 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #994 (82.6% percentile) for all time with 21,283 births since 1989. For boys, it ranks #878 (80.9% percentile) for all time with 17,197 births since 1880.
Finley has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1989 for girls). Birth data for Finley is available in 133 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (133 years for boys and 31 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Finley has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (55.3% of all recorded births). In 2023, 48.6% of babies named Finley were girls. Interestingly, until around 2005, the name was more popular for boys (87.4% boys from 1880 to 2004), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (58.4% girls from 2005 to 2023).
For girls, Finley reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 83.8% percentile (ranked #155) with 988 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 988 births per million (ranked 83.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Finley ranks #268 for girls (71.8% percentile) with 632 births per million, which is 64.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Finley reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 72.2% percentile (ranked #259) with 697 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 697 births per million (ranked 72.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Finley ranks #275 for boys (69.9% percentile) with 639 births per million, which is 91.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Finley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Finley is pronounced as FIHN-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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